Editing São Vicente, Cape Verde (section)

==Municipality==

Administratively, the island of São Vicente is covered by one municipality, ''[[Administrative divisions of Cabo Verde|Concelho]] de São Vicente''. This municipality consists of one ''[[Administrative divisions of Cabo Verde|freguesia]]'' (civil parish), ''Nossa Senhora da Luz'', which also covers the whole island. The municipal seat is the city of [[Mindelo]].

The ''freguesia'' is subdivided into the following settlements:
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* [[Baía das Gatas]]
* [[Lameirão]]
* [[Mindelo]] (city)<ref name=yearbook/>{{rp|32}}
* Monte Verde
* Norte da Baía
* [[Ribeira da Vinha]]
* [[Ribeira de Calhau]] 
* [[Ribeira Julião]]
* [[Salamansa]]
* [[São Pedro, Cape Verde|São Pedro]]
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===Politics===

Since 2004, the [[Movement for Democracy (Cape Verde)|Movement for Democracy]] (MpD) is the ruling party of the municipality. The results of the latest elections, [[Cape Verdean local elections, 2016|in 2016]]:<ref name=dgape>[http://www.dgape.cv/images/bo_23-09-2016_53.pdf Official results local elections 2016] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190819102707/http://www.dgape.cv/images/bo_23-09-2016_53.pdf |date=2019-08-19 }}, ''Boletim Oficial I Série, Número 53'', 23 September 2016</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style=text-align:right
!rowspan=2|Party
!colspan=2|Municipal Council
!colspan=2|Municipal Assembly
|-
!Votes%
!Seats
!Votes%
!Seats
|-
|align=left|[[Movement for Democracy (Cape Verde)|MpD]]||48.97||9||46.75||11
|-
|align=left|[[Democratic and Independent Cape Verdean Union|UCID]]||28.28||0||29.72||6
|-
|align=left|[[African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde|PAICV]]||20.07||0||20.75||4
|}

===Presidents===
*[[Henrique Teixeira de Sousa]], in the 1960s
*[[Onésimo Silveira]], in the late-1990s and the early 2000s
*[[Isaura Gomes]] 2004–2005 and 2008–2011
*Augusto Neves (since 2011)